today we made homemade tortilla chips and made an easy assemble nachos. We also got to talk about how to read a nutrition label and what the different parts of the labels mean in an overall assessment of the nutrition label.
Today we made healthy energy balls with the kids and they loved them!! We also got to talk about the different food groups and what they ate today and where the foods that they ate went according to the food groups. We also got to talk about how "healthy" or not the ingredients were that we were using today and where they went according to food groups.
This week we worked with the younger kids (kinder-2nd grade) and made the same chicken and veggie alfredo with a greek yogurt based alfredo sauce. The results were the same as last week, all of the kids loved this recipe and asked to take the recipe home with them!!
Today was such a good day! We cooked chicken a vegetable alfredo. The Alfredo was made with Greek yogurt, which all of the kids were skeptical about but they all ended up loving it! I got two thumbs up from all of the kids!! I also taught them how to tell when chicken is done based on touching it with the tongs and they all caught on really well.
Today with the kids we made an easy veggie burger, it wasn't their favorite thing that we've every made but I thought it was a good way to teach them how we can add vegetables into different foods, or cook them in different ways and they would still be good.
Today we made an easy breakfast scramble with the kids and talked about the importance of a balanced breakfast
Today in Chef YRCC we made an easy veggie lo mein and we talked about MyPlate with the kids.
this week the kids learned how to make greek turkey and rice skillets
this week the kids learned how to make lemon poppy seed scones and they LOVED THEM, and had so much fun making them
this week the kids learned how to make turkey meatball lasagna roll ups
